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In the BMFTR-funded research project CO2OL ISLANDS (Duration: 2026–2030) Partners from academia, public administration, and industry are developing innovative solutions for climate-resilient urban development. The goal is to optimize cooling and reduce CO₂ emissions in urban districts through the intelligent integration of geothermal systems, climate-adapted vegetation, and efficient energy distribution networks. At the core of the project is the development of intuitive, web-based software designed to assist municipal administrations in planning and evaluating measures to mitigate urban heat island effects, thereby accelerating decision-making processes. This initiative builds upon the existing EnergyMap Berlin!
Here is the link to the research project: https://www.co2ol-islands.de
In the research project CoolingMap a building-specific cadastre is being developed to analyze and forecast cooling demands in urban areas. Leveraging AI-assisted image recognition, building modeling, neural networks, and modern geographic information systems, innovative tools are being created to facilitate the planning of sustainable cooling strategies in cities. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), the project runs from 2026 to 2029 and is being implemented in the model regions of Stuttgart, Korbach, and Berlin. Project partners include the UdKB, HFT Stuttgart, KIT, Buro Happold, Enpageo, as well as the cities of Stuttgart and Korbach.
Here is the link to the research project: https://www.coolingmap.de
We have released our Python interface energymap4py on GitHub. You can find it here: https://github.com/UdK-VPT/energymap4py!
Our webapp has been launched!
On the 28.05.2025 at the Berlin Energy Days we have held the event ‘EnergyMap Berlin - A digital tool for building-specific heat planning for the public’ and made our EnergyMap available to the public for the first time.
At the BauSIM 2024 in Vienna the paper "Revolutionizing Heating Planning: A Data-Driven Approach for Accurate and Scalable Energy Consumption Predictions", which describes the methodology of the substitute model for building-specific simulations in the EnergyMap Berlin project, was presented to a specialist audience from science and research. BauSIM is organized every two years under the auspices of IBPSA (International Building Simulation Association) and IBPSA-DACH includes the countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The conference focuses on simulation methods for buildings, neighborhoods and cities for a successful transformation of the building stock to climate neutrality with high resident satisfaction, security of supply and resilience in a changing world.
Maptime Berlin x Open Data Day 2024 took place at CityLAB Berlin on 29.2.2024. The team of EnergyMap Berlin presented current developments from our project to a passionate audience of map and open data enthusiasts. Thank you again for your keen interest in our project!
From October 10th to 12th, 2023, the InterGeo 2023, the international trade fair for the geospatial industry, took place at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. EnergyMap Berlin was represented at the booth of our project partner LUP GmbH. There, we demonstrated the first prototype of the EnergyMap. Thank you for the opportunity!
On 27.03.2023 the second project advisory board meeting of the EnergyMap Berlin project took place. Two new members were elected to the project advisory board, who come from the energy supply and tenants' association sectors. In the project advisory board meeting, the status of the work packages was discussed and the procedure, methodology and data basis were discussed in detail. The aim of the project advisory board is to accompany and advise the research project with experts from different areas of municipal heating planning.
On 23.02.2023, on Mierendorff Island, the INSEL-Conference was hold at which the EnergyMap Berlin was also presented. On this occasion, the questionnaires for collecting building parameters and energy consumption data for residential and non-residential buildings, which are used to analyse the building stock of Mierendorff Island, were presented to the participants.
On 26.01.2023 at the BOL-Symposium the EnergyMap project was presented. The Berlin Open Lab (BOL) is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the interface of technology, society and art on the Charlottenburg campus in Berlin. The BOL Symposium provides a platform to present findings from current research projects.
On 01.11.2022 "Aktionskreis Energie" invited to the educational lecture "Wärmekataster als Instrument einer kommunalen Wärmewende". The project EnergyMap was presented by representatives of the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the University of the Arts Berlin as well as co2online and was discussed with the audience afterwards.
Following the kick-off event, the first project advisory board meeting of the EnergyMap Berlin project was held. The project advisory board is a group of about 10 experts with representatives from the Berlin administration, the energy suppliers, science, the real estate industry and the tenants' association, which accompanies and advises the research project.
On 20.06.2022 the Kick-off event on the EnergyMap project took place on the Mierendorffinsel. The event started with a presentation by project leader Prof. Dr. Nytsch-Geusen from the UdK Berlin about the project, the motivation, the state of research so far as well as the AI approach and the project goals. The lecture "Berlin on the way to the heat turnaround" by Mr. Färber from the SenUMVK department for climate protection and climate adaptation as well as the lecture "Wärmekataster Hamburg und Energienutzungsplan München" by Dr. Sandrock from the Hamburg Institute underlined the necessity of building-specific heat registers for the optimization of municipal heat planning. Prof. Dr. Streblow's lecture "Methods for heat demand analysis of urban quarters" impressively demonstrated the state of research at RWTH Aachen University on neighborhood simulations.
The joint project EnergyMap Berlin is coordinated by the project partner UdK Berlin.
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University of Arts Berlin
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